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This study aimed to use objective criteria to differentiate cluttering from stuttering in Japanese speakers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Participants were 32 consecutive native-Japanese speakers who visited the Keio University Hospital between July 2020 and January 2023 with a chief complaint of speech disfluency. One physician and two speech-language-hearing therapists concurred on a stuttering or cluttering diagnosis of the 32 patients based on recordings of the Kitsuon kensa-ho test. The frequencies of stuttering-like disfluencies (SDF) and normal disfluencies (NDF) were calculated from the Kitsuon kensa-ho, and the ratio of disfluencies (RDF) was calculated as the ratio of SDF to NDF. Differences between the cluttering and stuttering groups in the RDF and the mean articulatory rate (MAR) for oral reading and a monologue task were tested using the Mann\u2013Whitney U test. ROC curves were used to determine the sensitivity and specificity that well-distinguished subjects with cluttering from those with stuttering; the experts\u2019 diagnosis was the gold standard.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of the 32 participants, 12 (38%) were diagnosed with cluttering and 20 (62%) with stuttering. The cluttering and stuttering groups were comparable in demographic characteristics. The RDF on monologue task had the highest sensitivity in diagnosing cluttering, and the MAR on monologue task had the highest specificity. Adopting provisional criteria of a monologue RDF greater than 1.2 and a monologue MAR greater than 7.5 produced a sensitivity of 0.92 and a specificity of 0.95.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conclude that combining monologue RDF and monologue MAR well-distinguished cluttering from stuttering. 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